Siemens exec: AI will have massive effect on radiology

Radiology will experience massive changes in the near future as artificial intelligence (AI) plays an increasingly influential role in the profession. That prediction comes from Dr. Arthur Kaindl, head of digital health services at Siemens Healthineers, in an interview with the German Society of Neuroradiology (DGNR).

Kaindl is scheduled to give the keynote address on Thursday, 12 October, at DGNR's 52nd anniversary commemoration.

"The radiologist of the future will no longer mainly produce findings," he said, citing Siemens' collaboration with the University Radiology Essen-Duisburg to develop an algorithm to diagnose interstitial pulmonary diseases, which can be time-consuming and complex.

"For the radiologists of the future, such successful projects show the focus is no longer on the findings, but on the production of images [and] questions about the right modality," he told the DGNR.

Given radiology's "gigantic" role in healthcare, Kaindl added that AI will help researchers develop hundreds of algorithms to validate research and clinical findings and to curate data for more specialized diagnoses.